The International Court of Justice
has insisted that a remedy be provided in U.S. courts
for the failure to provide non-citizen defendants their consular notification
rights under international treaty. The Medellin case
is back in the Texas courts to
determine whether noncompliance with the treaty requires the reversal of capital
cases for non-citizens. Medellin will
be argued in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on September 14, 2005, and
Ms. Babcock and Professor Young will discuss the litigation and the broader
legal issues. MCLAP is a program funded by Mexico to
assist Mexican nationals facing capital punishment in the United States.

This event is sponsored
by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for
Human Rights and Justice, the Capital Punishment Center,
the McCormick Society, the Sheffield Society, and the William Wayne Justice Center for
Public Interest Law.